Mark Seigel had already made four game-saving stops in regulation and overtime, so what was one more in the shootout?

Seigel, Kent Denver’s steady junior goalkeeper, made the only save in the shootout to lift his fifth-seeded team to a 1-1 (5-3) win over No. 8 Faith Christian at All-City Stadium and to the Class 3A boys soccer championship.

“I’ve seen it all season. It’s unbelievable,” Kent Denver coach Arty Smith said of Seigel. “He’s great, he really is.”

Matt Olson scored the clinching goal in the shootout, helping Kent keep its quest alive for its first state title in boys soccer.

But it was Seigel who ensured the game would even make it to a shootout. He made three saves in succession down by the goal line on Faith Christian’s Cameron Doody with two minutes left in regulation — “It was pretty scary,” Seigel said — then stopped Doody again with eight seconds remaining in the second overtime, this time on a header off a corner kick.

“I saw it the whole way, it came right in my hands,” Seigel said. “It’s the end of the game, but actually a pretty routine save.”

Faith Christian grabbed the lead in the second half when Stefan Knoerr scored just his second goal of the season, tucking a rebound home off a shot from Liam Noone.

But Kent Denver countered seven minutes later when Cole Evans scored on a free kick from just outside the box.

Colorado Academy 3, Coal Ridge 1. Colorado Academy, in search of its first boys soccer state championship since winning back-to-back crowns in 1998 and 1999, got an emphatic win over Coal Ridge to move to the 3A championship game.

Griffin O’Brien scored twice off of ground crosses and Adam Pollock added a goal early in the second half to lead No. 2 Colorado Academy.

The game was halted late in the second half as a mouse scurried across the field. The referee picked it up and carried it off the field.

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